from Daily Sabah
Bedouin families in a West Bank village are dismantling sheep pens and loading their belongings onto trucks as escalating settler violence forces them from their homes in the Israeli-occupied territory.
While attacks by Israeli settlers affect communities across the West Bank, the semi-nomadic Bedouins are among the territory's most vulnerable, saying they suffer from forced displacement due in large part to a lack of law enforcement.
"What is happening today is the complete collapse of the community as a result of the settlers' continuous and repeated attacks, day and night, for the past two years," Farhan Jahaleen, a Bedouin in the village of Ras Ein al-Auja, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, Israeli outposts have steadily expanded, with more than 500,000 settlers now living in the territory, which is also home to 3 million Palestinians...
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